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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5!rooij From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: com-beta-0.2.1 now for NetBSD Message-ID: <1993May14.080732.24211@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mozart Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven References: <CGD.93May12012606@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <1993May13.190534.3955@cc.umontreal.ca> <CGD.93May13134656@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 08:07:32 GMT Lines: 29 cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >after the com code is in, i understand the Guido van Rooij >(guido@???????.nl) is working on a multiport/bidirectional serial >driver, based on bde's stuff and mine. guido@gvr.win.tue.nl that is. I finished it some time ago. Basically it *is* your multiport and bidirectional stuff hacked into Bruce's driver. But it works okay for me. >honestly, that driver is *very* useful to me. in fact, my machine >at home runs a kernel dated 3/5/93, because no source tree i have >lying around which is dated later than that has had the driver >incorporated, and i *need* the multiport support. >the fact that the driver is is useful, however, doesn't deter me >from wanting it to go away silently; it's really a bad hack, >and a great replacement is on the way... Are you sure? ;-) The driver is okay, I agrreee, but the multiport stuff is the same ;-) >chris >-- >Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu > "386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you > find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass -Guido